I use Pinstripes, but I'm thinking of switching to something a little less muffled. No matter what you do, you're not going to get much resonance at all out of a set of Octobans, but the Pinstripes do sound really muffled.

Actually, I like Evans heads too. I might try the G2's or G1's. Hydralics would probaly sound too dead. And I don't know too much about Aquarians, as I stopped using them a while ago, but any one or two ply non-muffled head should work. As I said, Pinstripes do sound a little dead for me. And I love my Roto-toms. Now Pinstripes sound amazing on them.

Yeah, I got both. I actually think that I use the Roto-toms more though. I also saw, monsierdrumdude, that you are planning on building your own set of octobans. That's actually a good idea. I've seen it done before. I'm actually thinking about building the low pitch set to go with my high pitch set so that I'll have the whole octave. Here's some people who have built their own: